iam-policy.md

IAM Policy

The Amazon VPC CNI plugin requires IAM policies to manage IP addresses on EC2 instances on-behalf of users.

Generic IAM policies

In general, you can grant below IAM policies to Amazon VPC CNI plugin depending on the IP Family configured:

IPv4 mode

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:AssignPrivateIpAddresses",
                "ec2:AttachNetworkInterface",
                "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
                "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface",
                "ec2:DescribeInstances",
                "ec2:DescribeTags",
                "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
                "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes",
                "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
                "ec2:DetachNetworkInterface",
                "ec2:ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute",
                "ec2:UnassignPrivateIpAddresses"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:CreateTags"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

The above policy is also available under: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKS_CNI_Policy as a part of AWS managed policies for EKS.

IPv6 mode

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:AssignIpv6Addresses",
                "ec2:DescribeInstances",
                "ec2:DescribeTags",
                "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
                "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:CreateTags"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Scope-down IAM policy per EKS cluster

Instead of the generic IAM policy, we can scope down IAM policy needed by Amazon VPC CNI plugin per EKS cluster.

Prerequisites:

• Amazon VPC CNI plugin needs to be on version v1.8.0+. If upgrading from older versions, existing worker node should be recycled first.
• Amazon VPC CNI plugin need to be configured with EKS cluster's name.
  • kubectl set env daemonset aws-node -n kube-system CLUSTER_NAME=${YourClusterName}
• Substitute ${CLUSTER_NAME} and ${VPC_ID} with EKS cluster's name and VPC_ID respectively in sample policy below

sample scope-down IAM policy for IPv4 mode

Below is an sample scoped-down IAM policy.

Note:

• Depending on the use cases, users may further scope-down IAM policy. e.g. specify the AWS region/accountID in ARNs.
• Refer Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon EC2

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:DescribeInstances",
                "ec2:DescribeTags",
                "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
                "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
                "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:CreateTags"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*"
            ],
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "aws:RequestTag/cluster.k8s.amazonaws.com/name": "${CLUSTER_NAME}"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:subnet/*",
                "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*"
            ],
            "Condition": {
                "ArnEquals": {
                    "ec2:Vpc": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc/${VPC_ID}"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface",
                "ec2:UnassignPrivateIpAddresses",
                "ec2:AssignPrivateIpAddresses",
                "ec2:AttachNetworkInterface",
                "ec2:DetachNetworkInterface",
                "ec2:ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*"
            ],
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "aws:ResourceTag/cluster.k8s.amazonaws.com/name": "${CLUSTER_NAME}"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:AttachNetworkInterface",
                "ec2:DetachNetworkInterface",
                "ec2:ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*"
            ],
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "aws:ResourceTag/kubernetes.io/cluster/${CLUSTER_NAME}": "owned"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}